Hi,

Could you not just alter each search word to end in a 'wildcard' symbol, 
before searching, so that "hosp app"
would actually search for "hosp* app*"?

If they do use full words it will still work.

Phrases and reserve words would need handling, but a little perl should 
do it!

Cheers

John


McKenzie, Chuck wrote:

>Is there an existing way to have swish-e match a search for the beginning of
>a word to the full word?  As an example, matching "hosp" to "hospital"?  I
>haven't found a way to do it with existing Stemming or FuzzyMatching
>options.
>
>Would the best way to do this be to use a custom indexing program that for
>each word, added an index entry for substr($word,0,3) through
>substr($word,0,length($word))?
>
>In context, I'm looking to replace our existing Netscape Enterprise Server
>search engine with apache/swish-e, but many people have been trained to use
>the existing search engine with only word fragments, and I need to avoid
>having to retrain them.
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck McKenzie
>
>
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